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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

hogs spotted at trough

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  • 15 comments in c/technology@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 41 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Of course they are, gotta get their hands on some more of that sweet, sweet taxpayer money.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago*

    My conspiracy theory is that AI companies want into the government not just for the money (which would be huge) but to also protect them when the bubble bursts and they all get bailed out because they are now to big to fail and too integrated into the government.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Meaning we can jail them for killing hundreds of Iranians when the tribunals start, right?

    ...right?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Best you can get is them having to flee to Argentina if the general population finally awakens, but there's a good chance that might never happen. However, it is more likely, that they can form their own network states on the remains of the USA, while watching Russia and China trying to grab as much land as possible from a safe distance.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There are many applications of machine learning models for military purposes, some of which you can see with Ukraine drone warfare for instance. Tech like visual recognition predates much of what people call AI now.

    However, this is likely referring to LLM usage to predict stuff, which is utterly stupid because it's a language model. It's like those people who think it's sentient because it recites science fiction from its training to pretend to be sentient.

    Part of me hopes this is just a grift, since the reality of ChatGPT helping the military pick targets and make strategic decisions is terrifying. Either way we're just so utterly fucked.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    When Trump had that Iranian girl's school bombed, they were quick to blame it on an AI hallucination.

    Another poster speculated that's the point: they aren't having it make tactical decisions, they're building a scapegoat into the decision to commit war crimes.

    Bomb a girl's school at the command of an individual? Folks lower on the chain might disobey, civilians demand accountability... It's messy.

    Bomb a girl's school at the command of AI? Ope, whoopsie, silly thing thought that was a terrorist training compound - that's a bad AI! Bad!. Junior enlisted fruitlessly bitch about their replacement; civilians post an article warning about the dangers of AI... By Monday no one remembers.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The public has roundly rejected AI so the only money left is cashing in on personal friendships with people who don't normally have friends.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Tech companies cozying up with the government?

    Oh boy it must be a day ending in y.

    Seriously, this has been happening forever. Hell, when Snowden leaked Bush/Obama's prism program, the response was a collective yawn.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    The llms keep getting worse where they first answer with both-sides have merit and give pros and cons, but try to avoid ranking by score, how well each issue helps the majority live healthier lives, quality of life and such. It doesn't want to show how much higher the Democratic platform scores on a comparison of top voter issues. It should impartially do the math, show areas for improvement, see how people in other countries do better with x, y and z issues, and polls show they would never give up the nice things, we all should have too.

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  • 2 comments in c/technology@lemmy.ml view that post
    [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    This was completely obvious.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    only to the people paying attention -- approximately 3% of the population.

    go out and ask people if they put chatgpt on their phones to learn more about the 97% of the population who aren't paying attention.

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  • 1 comment in c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital view that post
    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    thats how capitalism is supposed to work right, corporations BECOME the government?

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  • 1 comment in c/usa@midwest.social view that post
    [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    And I just saw a video proving the intelligence community controls Hollywood, especially how they only ever show the CIA in a positive light.

    We are run by ministries of espionage and war. Of course they control AI too. How else are they going to do mass surveillance to everyone in parallel?

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